As its title says, this book is tru­ly a col­lec­tion of amaz­ing facts. Writ­ten in Israel and trans­lat­ed from the Hebrew, it is pre­sent­ed from an Ortho­dox per­spec­tive. The first sec­tion, Holy Men, Holy Books and Holy Places, talks about the world of ​“our Sages,” Jew­ish kings and their dynas­ties, peo­ple of the Bible and their longevi­ty, the sourc­ing of the five books of Torah and war­riors from the Tanach. In sub­se­quent sec­tions, intro­duc­to­ry pas­sages echo this approach but are fol­lowed by more gener­ic infor­ma­tion. Did you know, for exam­ple, that the peo­ple with the low­est life expectan­cy live in Zim­bab­we where the women live to about thir­ty-four years of age and men until forty or that the most com­mon non-con­ta­gious ill­ness is tooth decay? Did you know that the coun­try with the most pris­on­ers, one out of every thir­ty-four cit­i­zens, is the Unit­ed States? Sec­ond in this series, with a third book antic­i­pat­ed, the infor­ma­tion ranges from sec­tions about trans­porta­tion (where we are told that the inven­tion that has saved the most lives is the seat belt) to the Armies and Wars sec­tion, where we learn that in 1859 John Hen­ri Durant ​“orga­nized civil­ians to aid injured sol­diers” and, sub­se­quent­ly, was the inspi­ra­tion for the Inter­na­tion­al Red Cross. It is not just the infor­ma­tion, which is so com­pelling. In addi­tion, the book is filled with beau­ti­ful pho­tographs that aug­ment what is pre­sent­ed. For these these rea­sons, this book will be a wel­come resource to have in one’s home. Rec­om­mend­ed for ages 9‑adult.